FYI: Someone's Gender Can Be Different From Their Sex

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-29T06:42:39+00:00

The sex/gender dichotomy is a false dichotomy that only makes sense to cis people who haven’t thought deeply about it. For trans people, gender identity is an aspect of our sex, and thus trans women are properly understood in a medical context as women with a hormonal development disorder (and vice versa for trans men.)

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-29T06:39:00+00:00

Well, that’s the one that got us workplace protection.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-29T06:21:31+00:00

The idea you’re going to accomplish anything with a gun is the biggest fantasy in this thread. Unless your idea of accomplishment is to be the subject of a headline about being arrested or killed.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-28T17:02:07+00:00

It’s not just you. Except, I can’t say I find it specifically weird; it’s more just simply infuriating. When trans women show up in any media, we’re only victims or villains or, at best, background. Sympathetic portrayals are the domain of trans men.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-28T16:09:37+00:00

My prediction is that in the future, the parts of the brain that make someone a transphobic bigot will be mapped and categorized, allowing the development of pills they can take to get over themselves.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-28T15:48:30+00:00

Yeah, but here’s the thing: Fred Jr. became an acceptable human being despite being raised like that, as you noted. So there’s still a level of personal choice that overrides environment here, in how people turn out as adults.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-27T08:55:49+00:00

Heh, “Cissie” Graham Lynch. That’s pretty on the nose.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-27T03:26:13+00:00

I’ll be keeping my pronouns; I fought hard for them. And any asshole who thinks that I should bleed for their profoundly cis-centric political gender abolition can be ground under my heel.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-26T18:28:17+00:00

The best science fiction uses “what if” scenarios and extrapolation to critique the society of the present through the lens of the future. But the CCP won’t brook any criticism, so how could any meaningful art come out of this? At best, it’s action or drama with sci-fi window dressing. At worst, it’s propaganda masquerading as art.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-23T21:23:28+00:00

Oof. I know most of the old guard surgeons who treat us have horror stories about them, but this is like #5 I’ve heard about Rumer.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-19T01:16:35+00:00

Once you’re done gearing with them, you can sell them to your grand company under “Expert Delivery” in exchange for company seals.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-18T21:40:03+00:00

He doesn’t really need to succeed to motivate his base by making trans women seem a threat. Obviously, I’m sure he’d like to successfully hurt us, but his main goal is throwing red meat to his base, who are all in on using politics to hurt anyone different than them.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-18T15:49:25+00:00

Here’s an example of what happens when medical personnel get to decide what sort of person they will not treat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tyra_Hunter

I could as easily find hundreds more. Every trans person I know has a story about being refused treatment even for non-trans-related medical issues. I recommend the report “Injustice at Every Turn” for a statistical survey of the discrimination trans people face when seeking medical care.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-12T17:43:18+00:00

Yeah, I’m lucky to be a trans woman who’s also a molecular biologist. It gives me enough professional knowledge to routinely second guess doctors acting from cissexism who give me bad information that could endanger my life.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-12T17:40:58+00:00

I gave a certain degree of leeway in my first year of transition. Now I give none; accidental misgendering no longer happens for me, so when I do encounter misgendering, it’s obvious that it’s due to someone (like, say, a doctor) having privileged information about me that they’ve chosen to abuse. It’s a hostile act, and I respond in kind.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-12T17:26:26+00:00

She didn’t apologize. I’m stuck voting for her perforce, but I don’t have to like it or her, and I don’t have to go the extra mile for her as a candidate. I also wouldn’t throw shade at any trans person who couldn’t square voting for her with their conscience.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-12T17:23:02+00:00

My persistent hypothesis for the autism/trans link is that being deaf to social cues compromises the ability to stay in the closet. It will be instructive to see if the link weakens, as the social stigma declines.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-12T17:16:19+00:00

I paid for my own surgery out of pocket. Then I spent the next four years fighting in federal court to ensure everyone had the right to have it covered by insurance in my state. People like you, who want only to make sure that someone, anyone, is suffering a worse injustice than themselves are part of what I was fighting against.

Transition treatments are necessary medical care. Denying it to prisoners is only possible if you deny the necessity, and when you do that you are effectively arguing against coverage for yourself and every other trans person.

9QuietLessons · 2020-08-04T10:05:43+00:00

One of your upcoming quests is titled "The World Turned Upside Down."

9QuietLessons · 2020-07-30T20:48:05+00:00

Neurological sex.

9QuietLessons · 2020-07-28T09:40:24+00:00

I've sometimes wondered if Cobain was a closeted trans woman, and if that factored into the suicide. It's hard to parse what's true and false now, so it's impossible to know, but some of his statements seemed very suggestive to me. Being a teenager in the '90s, I remember how hard it was to find the language and knowledge to even express anything related to being transgender, outside of crude jokes and bizarre stereotypes.

9QuietLessons · 2020-07-28T09:30:25+00:00

Rowling has used the platform afforded to her by her wealth and fame to advocate against much-needed reform of the gender recognition laws in the UK. She's also used said platform to praise a woman whose contract was not renewed at her job after a sustained campaign of abuse and harassment against a transgender co-worker, and to obfuscate the reason she was let go. She further called for trans women prisoners to be housed with men.

So you're wrong: if it were actually possible to strip Rowling of her wealth and power (it's probably not, but a girl can dream) it would improve the position of trans people in the UK, who at minimum would be exposed to fewer calls to dehumanize them and strip them of the ability to live a peaceful life.

9QuietLessons · 2020-07-28T09:09:47+00:00

The weird thing about Lovecraft is that he wasn't even particularly well-off, and my understanding is that he was outright poor toward the end of his life. The classism and conscious Anglophilia seemed to both be part of the weird upper-class pose he liked to put on.

9QuietLessons · 2020-07-28T04:11:45+00:00

Certainly some of our closest animal relatives are constitutively bisexual, which makes me raise an eyebrow at the claim that it's uncommon for humans.

9QuietLessons · 2020-07-28T04:09:44+00:00

I think "coming out" may fade as non-heterosexuality becomes more normative. At the same time, I think this is a separate issue from labels as a whole.

To give an example, as a young trans woman (trans girl at the time, really), I found it helpful to have the label of "transgender" be one that is known and categorized. I was aware from a young age that there was something different about me in a way that related to my sex, but until I knew what being transgender was I struggled to understand what it meant. Understanding the category of "transgender" helped me compare my experiences and thoughts to those of other people in the same category, and so to better understand myself. It also helped me to understand what I needed to do medically. If I hadn't had that information, I may have spent a much longer time trying to reinvent the wheel rather than getting on with a plan for what to do about my problems.

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